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Way back in 2002 Dave Winer made a bet:
In a Google search of five keywords or phrases representing the top five news stories of 2007, weblogs will rank higher than the New York Times’ Web site.
It’s important to remember that in 2002 people still wrote “weblogs” in quotes, as though they weren’t sure how to use the word. Winer won his bet in 2007. Anybody want to make a bet about 2014?
You might not have cared to know the recommended trucking practices for pigs or other livestock, but Colorado State University professor Temple Grandin is happy to explain all of that and more. She’s got videos too.
Perhaps you know somebody who made a new year’s resolution to improve the way they truck their livestock?
This news story from 2006 alerted me to a war I didn’t know anybody was fighting: the liberation of Karen State from Myanmar. The KNLA (Karen National Liberation Army) and KNU (Karen National Union) have been fighting for independence since the British left Burma (Myanmar) in 1948. What do you get a 51-year old rebel movement for its birthday? Here are their demands:
A while ago now I bought a Aiptek GO-HD 720p from Amazon for cheap. The FotoRamp review was helpful; links to actual raw video convinced me; but this video review was absolutely no help at all.
You can’t track the brand on Flickr; but a search reveals a few photos (one, two), a video, and even some photo panoramas (one, two) assembled from the video. You can see my own test videos here (note the link to the raw video in the description of each).
I find a few sausage, egg, and cheese breakfast sandwiches and chocolate milk do the trick, but I’d eat those every day if I could. I’m always dubious of claims to national consensus, but this is especially ridiculous. Is our national hangover cure really tomato juice and eggs? I thought it was hair of the dog, or beer and eggs. Friends of mine have been so concerned by the challenge that they’ve developed Biba, an electrolyte rich mixer that’s supposed to reduce the risk of hangover from the start (join their Facebook group to learn more).
This dispute is going on now, tonight. There are obviously at least two sides to this story (Viacom &Time Warner Cable). You’d think a media giant like Viacom would know how to handle this one, but it seems that all they’ve got is that splash screen in front of a bunch of their websites and this uninspiring ad. Time Warner Cable, which you might think is just a bunch of network plumbers, seems a little more connected. They’ve got people on Twitter (one, two, three) who are actually talk with people, not just at them. jeffTWC (whose profile says he’s TWC’s director of digital communication) points out that Viacom appears to be threatening to block web access to their sites from TWC’s customers.
Still, isn’t this so old economy? Time Warner Cable needs Viacom’s content, but Viacom needs to Time Warner Cable’s audience.
New economy: it seems a growing number of customers are happy just getting internet access and spending their evenings on Facebook with Hulu playing in the background.
duckett’s Wired But Disconnected on ccMixter is actually ironic: the whole song is the result of an online collaboration.
I have an old Lensbaby 2.0 (looks like this) that does a great job of making casual snapshots look like real portraits. But I also find it really difficult to get focus on my subject. Blame my bad eyes, my insistence on using it wide open with it’s shallowest depth of field, and simply sloppiness, but I can’t do it.
This new Lensbaby Composer with a sort of normal focus ring (rather than flexible bellows), might work a little better. And the idea is appealing enough that I’m now lusting for it about as much as I’m drooling over these.
Cool Lensbaby Composer photo above by Dan Catt.
Tankmen is funny, no doubt, but I wonder what it means when we’re deeply embroiled in two of the longest running armed conflicts of US history that we find it so easy to make comedy about war.
Jappy Jaladays begets a number of other punny greetings:
